Culiacan, Mexico News

NOGALES, AZ A Mexican national wanted for homicide in his native country was turned over to representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office at the border crossing in Nogales, Ariz., this morning by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .

Mexico police have arrested another top member of the Beltran Levya drug cartel.

BRUSSELS a ' This year has been one of the worst on record for the deliberate killing of reporters and media staff, an international journalists' association said today.

The men's hands were tied behind their backs, and shell casings at the scene in Los Mochis suggested the killers fired at the victims as they were hanging by their necks, Sinaloa state prosecutors spokesman Martin Gastelum said.

Many spectators of HBO's 24/7 program were shocked when Juan Manuel Marquez proceeded to drink his own urine in preparation for his bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

An India-flagged bulk cargo freighter with a failed engine was adrift Sunday in the North Pacific, being tossed about by stormy seas and fierce winds, the Coast Guard said.

The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills laced with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the trucks, buses and cars that flow south over the Mexican border daily like a motorized river.

Mexico, Dec 21 The death of one of the bosses of drug-trafficking when he clashed with troops of the Navy in Mexico formulates new questions after the confirmation that the boss had militaries and cops under his service.

It had been an elaborate farewell to one of Mexico's fallen heroes. Ensign Melquisedet Angulo, a special forces sailor killed last week during the government's most successful raid on a top drug lord in years, received a stirring public tribute in which the secretary of the navy presented his mother with the flag that covered her son's casket.

CULIACAN, Mexico a " Gunmen have killed a tourism secretary in northwestern Mexico, two days after a drug kingpin was buried in the state's capital.Rolando Bon Lopez is assistant prosecutor for Sinaloa state.

Genetic testing has confirmed that a man killed in a shootout last week with marines was drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, the Mexican government said Sunday as a lavish but heavily guarded memorial service took place in this drug-plagued northern city.

Mourners trickled into a palatial chapel in the heart of Mexican drug trafficking territory on Sunday to pay their respects to late drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, shot dead by security forces this week.

Genetic testing has confirmed that a man killed in a shootout last week with marines was drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, the Mexican government said Sunday as a swanky but heavily guarded memorial service for the fallen capo took place in this drug-plagued northern city.

Authorities say a Mexican man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for dealing drugs.

CULIACAN, MexicoFederico Solorzano is no used car salesman, but he seemed to be getting into the part as he made the rounds of a well-stocked car lot the other day.

Leaving San Francisco, we cruised at sea for three days in beautiful weather before reaching our first port, Topolobampo, Mexico.

Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., known as OMA , reports that terminal passenger traffic at its 13 airports decreased 10.9% in November 2009, as compared to November 2008.

Spain's initial era in Mexico evolved into a fascinating turnabout, starting in 1519 when four boats flying the Spanish flag appeared off the Gulf of Mexico.

Murphy the dog and Cesar Millan, star of the popular TV show "Dog Whisperer," didn't interact much at their meeting.

A Perris man who killed his girlfriend's husband -- an Army National Guardsman who had returned from Iraq for the birth of his wife's child, who had been fathered by the defendant -- was sentenced today to 50 years to life in prison.